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SeQuester is a targeted physical chemical process designed to remove selenium from effluent water in industrial wastewater applications.
This innovative selenium removal technology reduces selenium concentrations via chemical and physical methods while helping avoid capital expenditures by transferring costs towards operations and maintenance. It utilizes an enhanced adsorptive matrix and process adjustments along with conventional wastewater treatment equipment such as holding tanks, clarifiers, and filter presses.
Laboratory tests and field results have shown that, not only can SeQuester effectively remove selenium, but can also remove total suspended solids (TSS) and metals such as lead, arsenic, mercury, and molybdenum from wastewater under typical industry operating parameters.
SeQuester can be employed to remove selenite and selenate from power plant flue gas desulfurization (FGD), ash-sluicing, ash pond, and landfill leachate wastewaters. It also reduces the concentration of other priority pollutants in these water streams under standard operating parameters.
In the US, the EPA has set forth guidelines that may further restrict selenium discharge by 2028. Implementing SeQuester may allow companies to avoid capital expenditures by transferring costs towards operations and maintenance so plants can operate past that deadline and may even relieve concerns about stranded debt if a plant shutdown becomes necessary.
At cycling plants with irregular discharge, SeQuester can perform well in batch or variable flow mode to handle typical flow and chemistry variations. Operation during the day shift is possible, with no concerns about maintaining bio-populations in selenium bioreactors, which can influence other wastewater treatment processes.
SeQuester may be a treatment option for small leachate streams and other coal combustion residual runoffs, which may reduce operational costs and offer more flexibility than biofilm reactor technologies.
